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    The Davy Crockett Movies

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    I was a teenager I went to Bullocks Creek Academy in York County, South Carolina. I did not go to college. I was a lawyer and a teacher and I became president. I was the 7th president of the United States of America. I was running against John Quincy Adams Jr. What makes me interesting is that I became President in 1828 and I got in a duel with Charles Dickinson.I killed him. Something that is special…

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    I think that for the past 8-16 years, the Democratic Party has had the best candidates between Democrat and RepublicanDemocrat Party is a political epithet used in the United States for the Democratic Party. The term has been used in negative or hostile fashion by conservative commentators and members of the Republican Party in party platforms, partisan speeches and press releases since at least 1940. The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United…

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    Who Is Andrew Jackson Dbq

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    four candidates running for president John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, William Crawford, and Andrew Jackson. All these candidates were republicans i) Andrew Jackson was more appealing to the people but he lost most of the votes from the electoral college ii) Since there was a tie of votes, the 12th amendment stated that the House of house of representatives would need to vote and decided who would be the president b) Henry Clay helped John Quincy Adams become president, and Clay was…

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    Indiana Jones is an archeologist, studies, and knows a lot about the subject. Each time there is an issue, he tries to resolve it and always find a solution. For instance, at the end of the movie, he knows that looking straight at the evil spirits that comes out…

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    place around the time of World war II and the Nazis.Indiana Jones is a unique man who became a college at Marshall College, but has a hobby as an archaeologist. Jones spends his free time hunting for hidden treasures and ancient artifacts around the world. One of his expeditions , Jones worked his way through a cave setup with traps. At the end of the cave , he took the golden idol and barely escaped with his own life. However , Jones’ rival archaeologist , Rene Belloq steals the idol…

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    their quest. The film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade demonstrates how guidance from a god-teacher during Indiana’s quest for the Holy Grail motivates proper morals that ultimately leads to a positive outcome. Elsa Schneider chooses to take on the quest for the Holy Grail with no god-teacher, she only has the example of greed and manipulation that is set by the Nazis which causes her to act immoral. Indiana Jones, on the other hand, is influenced by his father, Henry Jones Sr. on the quest…

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    Raiders of the Lost Ark In Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones had stated “I’m goin’ after that truck.” Sallah had responded with, “How?” Bravely, Indiana Jones replies by saying, “I don’t know, I’m makin’ this up as I go.” According to filmsite, Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark was directed by Steven Spielberg in 1981. This movie is also an example of a modern epic. There are five traits are characterized in an epic. The five traits of an epic are that the protagonist is a hero with the…

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    The Whiskey Revolution

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    Economic: 1790- 1860* In 1790 to 1860, there were plenty of treaties, acts, and battles going on. In 1794, President George Washington sent John Jay to London, to avoid war with Britain. John Jay had to negotiate with the British to remove their forts from the U.S soil, including their troops, and to stop supplying weapons to Indians. This was known as the Jay Treaty. After the negotiation, the British still maintained trading posts on U.S soil and sold firearms to Indians. The British told the…

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    The year is 1824. The presidential election is underway with four candidates fiercely competing for the top spot. Andrew Jackson led the popular vote with 158,000, then John Quincy Adams with 114,000, Henry Clay with 47,217, and William Crawford with 46,979. However, despite being more than 40,000 votes ahead of the nearest candidate, Jackson lost the election to Adams because of corrupt dealings in the House of Representatives. Jackson seethed with anger; he felt the voice of the people had…

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    The term “Jacksonian Democracy” describes the period in United States history, from the late 1820s to the beginning of the civil war, during which Andrew Jackson ascended to the presidency and founded the Democratic Party. Coming on the heels of the Jeffersonian era, in which Thomas Jefferson espoused beliefs that property ownership should be a requirement for suffrage and only the educated elite should hold office, Jackson extended voting rights to all white men, not simply landowners. He…

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